The World's 25 Highest-Paid Musicians 2012

With a whopping $110 million in pretax earnings, Dr. Dre is this year's top-earning musician--thanks largely to his Beats headphone line. He leads a pack of pop stars, rock icons, rap moguls and country crooners, many of whom bank the bulk of their bucks outside the recording studio. Totals are calculated from May 2011 through May 2012.